The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
ANOTHER NOAH AND HIS ARK.
warned in Dream to Prepare for a
Universal Flood

icing on Bear Lake in New Brunswick,
three DAYS journey through the woods from
marlborough, Me-, who has been told by
snirit that there is shortly to be q second
Great flood, In which he is to play the part
Of Noah. He has prepared himself with an
ark which is moored to his little log cabin,
and is ready to start on sixty days sail at
q moments notice A correspondent has
racentlv sought out the old mans home in
tbe wilderness, and has obtained from him
bis story. The name of the prospective
Noah is John Hobson, and in his early days
bc lived in Amity, Me. The Indians about
Rear Lake call him Sagonita, which, lit
erally translated means, Cracked on Big
Canoe"
liberal construction of the revelation
disclosed to John HobSon is as follows:
"And it came to pass that spirit wills
nered unto John Hobson, of Bear Lake, New
brunswick, saying; In thou, o John, shall
he conceived the saving of mankind. Fast
approacheth the star of Bethlehem, bringing
naught but destruction into the world
ttToo long have the wicked transgreSsed
The law, and it hath been ordained that they
ba DESTROYED from the face of the earth
both man and beast, and the creeping thing
that cometh with the use of strong waters,
and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth
nature that they were made.
"'But thou, John, hath found grace in her
eyes. and she will protect thee against the
wind and wave, even as Noah of old was
protected And she will save thee from all
harm, for thou art Just man and perfect
in thy generation. From Bear Lake even
unto the ends of Skhowhegan thou mayst
20 in safety, and thou shalt walk with her
and she with thee. A family shalt thou
build up around thee, and for all time man
shall call thee blessed.
but my happiness is not yet. Great is
the wickedness OF man upon the earth, and
greater still the punishment he must meet.
The end Of all flesh is before thee, for the
land is filled with violence through them
Make thee an ark of hard woods; rooms
shalt thou make in it, and shalt pitch it
within and without with spruce gum.
BE thou content with thine own handi-
work, and when the ark shall have been
finished abide near it at peace with all men
until the Spirit calleth thee again to enter
with all thy goods. But thou shalt take
with thee neither thy neighbor nor thy
neighbours wife, nor his OK nor his ass, nor
anything that is thy neighbor's
Yet, as thy wife is dead, thou mayst be
lonely; and as thy children are among the
corrupt of the land and will surely die, go
thou to Bar Harbor, whose mountains rise
from the sea to eastward, and wed the
daughter of some great millionaire"
The cabin of old Mr.. Hobson is situated in
the centre of a two-acre clearing, and COM
mands view which could hardly be sur
passed in beauty. His personal appearance
is by no means striking, and he might easily
be taken for an Assemblyman or a county
supervisor He dresses in rough, gray home
spun, and wears a PREDETERMINED slouch
hat after the fashion of a Mormon elder.
Tic fooa oil Sl,o oYA ,I,,r 70
copper color, and its most prominent fea-
ture is a large Roman nose. His forehead
is low and receding. His eyes are light
blue, and his hair is almost white. He raises
chickens and pigs, and has three cows and a
team of horses. The Indians frequently
raid his pig-sty and hen-roosts, and keep his
mind in a constant state of unrest thereby.
The interior of the cabin is rudely furnish
ed with two wooden chairs and a couch,
covered by horse blanket. A shelf over
the fireplace contains a well-thumbed Pill
grim's Progress" small Bible, two plugs of
tobacco and cob pipe. The old man said
he had read a great deal and had good
memory His wife and little daughter Nell
are buried at the foot of a rugged oak on
the banks Of the lake Reclining on the
banks of this beautiful sheet of water, hard
by the side of the little mounds. the old
man told the following story of the revela-
tson:
Last August was asleep one day upon
this very mound, dreaming of little NelPs
bright face, when a voice aroused me. |
sat up and looked around. The place was
enveloped in a cloud more dense than fog,
and, though | tried, my eyes were powerless
to penetrate it. A strange feeling of ecstacy
me- l seemed to catch the
sound of far-away music, grander than any
| had ever heard. 1t seemed as if the uni
verse had joined in one grand symphony to
hymn the Creators praise.
"And while l listened voice spake from
the cloud saying: The end of man cometh
with the star. Thou art the favored one of
a nation. Build thee an ark as did Noah,
and when the floods begin enter it with all
thy goods Take thee wife, lest in thy age
thou be childless.' And the spirit also told
me how to build the ark and what to put in
it, and where to get my wife and all other
necessary particulars. Then the voice grew
fainter, until its farewell was said i'll
whisper. And the music dulled my mind,
but as it passed gradually away the cloud
dissolved, the sun shone and | was once
more my human self. l got up and looked
around. It was morning The fields were
green and fresh and the trees stirred gently
i'll the breeze.
II recalled the spirits words and wept for
the inevitable ruin of man."
"What did you do about the ark" asked
the correspondent
Il began immediate preparations for build
ing it. " was his answer. ''On the other side
of the lake was scow that had been used
by lumbermen some years back. took my
horse and rode over to look at it. BY meas
urement it was So feet long and had
breadth of ~ feet. II was sound and solid,
barring few of the upper timbers.
Il looked the whole situation over and
didn't see q better place to 90 TO work; SO
rode back to the barn and got the mare,
then hitched up the pair and got n strong
rope, which was tied to the stern of the
scow. | cracked my whip once and the
brutes pulled the old hulk clean out of the
water, as easily as if il had been done with
rollers. The bottom was covered with
moss, but the planks were as sound as a nut.
SO far SO good, / thought | didn't have
exactly the style of a bow that the spirit
would have preferred me to build, perhaps,
but then double-enders were common years
ago among New Bedford whalers, and
reasoned that they ought to make good
arks if they were allowable in blubber
hunters. To tell the truth, | hadn't a very
deep-Seated idea how an ark ought to look.
The scow i'll depth was under four and one
half feet. / went TO the Bible, thinking |
might get some hints from the plans which
Noah had, but il wasn't any use Ii Noah
could have built an ark out of the few
hints which the Lord gave him he was
smart enough to mako q steamboat out OF
dcrv.
~ finally concluded I would deck tho
craft over oven with the top, and leave an